Ter Beek, a former Godfrey-Lee Board of Education member, has claimed that’s an errant basis because the federal government has agreed to not prosecute medical marijuana users who comply with state laws.

He threatened to attempt a recall of the entire Wyoming council after Monday’s unanimous vote in support of the ban, but he said the ACLU has since advised him to step aside from that effort.

The ACLU’s suit against the three Detroit-area cities, filed on behalf of a Birmingham couple, seeks to invalidate the local ordinances banning medical marijuana. Linda Lott, who has multiple sclerosis, and her husband, Robert, who has glaucoma, want to use marijuana at their home and at a private social club in Bloomfield Hills, and they want to grow the plant in a vacant warehouse they own in Livonia, according to the suit.

Jack Sluiter, Wyoming city attorney, said the ACLU sent him a copy of that suit before last week’s final council vote. He said Friday that the city was in the process of filing a response to Ter Beek’s suit.

Wyoming officials said they voted for the ban because they feel marijuana can be distributed safely by pharmacists, not by licensed marijuana caregivers as Michigan law allows.